Notice2025-01177
Notice of Inventory Completion: Marshall University, Huntington, WV
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Published
January 17, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Marshall University has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01177]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039365; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Marshall University, Huntington,
WV
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Marshall University has completed an
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human
remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after February 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Marion Coe, Marshall University, One John Marshall Drive,
Huntington, WV 25755, telephone (304) 696-3758, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#472428222a072a2635342f262b2b69222332"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bdded2d8d0fdd0dccfced5dcd1d193d8d9c8">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of
Marshall University, and additional information on the determinations
in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in
the inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, one individual has been reasonably identified. The one lot of
associated funerary objects consist of 37 fragments of unmodified
faunal remains. Of this number, 30 are currently missing from the
collection. Marshall University continues to look for any missing
objects. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed
from the Childers Site (46-MS-121), Burial Feature 24 from Mason County
in West Virginia. In 1980, the University of Akron Field School
conducted an archaeological excavation of the Site and exhumed human
remains and associated funerary objects. The human remains were later
transferred to Marshall University. Sometime in the early 1990s, a now
retired faculty member from the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at Marshall University, sent the human remains to a
graduate student for their dissertation research. This individual
reached out to Marshall University and returned the human remains in
September 2023. Marshall University has no knowledge or record of the
presence of any potentially hazardous substances being used to treat
the human remains or associated funerary objects.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location of the human remains and associated funerary objects described
in this notice.
Determinations
Marshall University has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The one object described in this notice is reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the
Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Bad River Band of the
Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation,
Wisconsin; Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; Catawba Indian Nation;
Cayuga Nation; Cherokee Nation; Chickahominy Indian Tribe; Chickahominy
Indian Tribe--Eastern Division; Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky
Boy's Reservation, Montana; Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe
of Indians; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma; Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan;
Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan; Lac
Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin;
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the Lac du
Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake
Superior Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa
Indians of Montana; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota (Six component
reservations: Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; Grand
Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band);
Nansemond Indian Nation; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Oneida Indian Nation;
Oneida Nation; Onondaga Nation; Pamunkey Indian Tribe; Ponca Tribe of
Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; Rappahannock Tribe, Inc.;
Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake
Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of
Michigan; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa
Indians, Michigan; Seneca Nation of Indians; Seneca-Cayuga Nation;
Shawnee Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of Seneca; Tunica-Biloxi
Indian Tribe; Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota;
Tuscarora Nation; United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in
Oklahoma; Upper Mattaponi Tribe; and the Wyandotte Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
authorized representative identified in this notice under ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after February 18, 2025.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, Marshall
University must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects are considered a single request and not
competing requests. Marshall University is responsible for sending a
copy of this
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notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations
identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: January 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-01177 Filed 1-16-25; 8:45 am]
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